New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Water Monitoring & Standards (WMS), Bureau of Water Quality Standards and Assessment (BWQSA)

Publication_Date: 20120501

Title: 2010 Water Quality Limited Waters (Edition 20120501)

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Trenton, NJ

Publisher: NJ Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)

Other_Citation_Details:

The NJDEP may distribute GIS data in a variety of formats, such as the ESRI shapefile and/or various versions of the file geodatabase format. The data also may be available for viewing on various profiles of the NJ GeoWeb online mapping application.

This data represents the results of the 2010 Section 303(d) List of Water Quality Limited Waters (303(d) List). This List contains all NJ waters (represented as assessment units) and associated parameters not meeting applicable NJ Surface Water Quality Standards (N.J.A.C. 7:9B). The data identifies each assessment unit assessed as not attaining the applicable designated use based on the 2010 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Methods, and the parameter causing non-attainment. The 2010 303(d) List was published as Appendix B of the 2010 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report (Integrated Report).

Purpose:

This data set spatially represents the assessment results for the 2010 Section 303(d) List of Water Quality Limited Waters (303(d) List), which was approved by USEPA on January 24, 2012 pursuant to Section 303(d) of the federal Clean Water Act and adopted by NJDEP on March 5, 2012 as an amendment to the Statewide Water Quality Management Plan pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:15-3.4 and 6.2.

Supplemental_Information:

Data is current until the 2010 303(d) List is approved by USEPA.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20020101

Beginning_Time: unknown

Ending_Date: 20061231

Ending_Time: unknown

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -75.586783

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -73.890656

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.326103

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 38.874880

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none

Theme_Keyword: 303d List

Theme_Keyword: Assessments

Theme_Keyword: Designated Use

Theme_Keyword: Water Quality Inventory

Theme_Keyword: 305 (b)

Theme_Keyword: 303 (d)

Theme_Keyword: 2010 303d List of Water Quality Limited Waters

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme_Keyword: inlandWaters

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: NONE

Place_Keyword: New Jersey

Access_Constraints: none

Use_Constraints:

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Some older data files may not have a NJ State Plane feet projection file. If the zip file does not contain a .prj file, please download the njsp83.prj file and rename it to the filename in the zip. For example, the Head of Tide shapefile is called hot.shp. In this case, please download, unzip, and rename the njsp83.prj file to hot.prj.

Layer was derived from the HUC14 coverage. Positional Accuracy for Huc14 states:
NJGS received sub-huc14 basins coverage from USGS-WRD in NAD27 UTM coordinates and began processing into Dephuc14 in NAD83 State Plane Feet coordinates. Projection resulted in a coverage that was shifted about 735 ft SSW in comparison to earlier coverages. The reason for, and origin of this shift is unknown. Therefore, the projected coverage was manually transformed using an affine transformation to best fit the correct line positions based on a comparison to earlier version of the dephuc14 coverage.

"1" indicates that the parameter is on the 2010 303(d) List, "0" indicates the parameter is not on the 2010 303(d) List

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: TCE1

Attribute_Definition: Parameter Trichloroethylene

Attribute_Definition_Source: NJDEP

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

"1" indicates that the parameter is on the 2010 303(d) List, "0" indicates the parameter is not on the 2010 303(d) List

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

This dataset identifies discreet parameters as pollutants causing impairment (i.e., non-attainment of applicable designated uses) on NJ waters), including "cause unknown". Parameters are considered to cause impairment if they exceed the applicable surface water quality standards (SWQS) in accordance with the 2010 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Methods (Methods Document), unless otherwise noted in the detailed description (definition) of the attribute.

The NJDEP may distribute GIS data in a variety of formats, such as the ESRI shapefile and/or various versions of the file geodatabase format. The data also may be available for viewing on various profiles of the NJ GeoWeb online mapping application.